Case Study: Multi-State Retailing Company achieves compliant, automated Office 365 email archiving with Barracuda Networks' Cloud Archiving Service

How Barracuda Archiving Helped Satisfy Compliance Requirements

A multi-state, health-oriented retailer with 600+ users consolidated on Office 365 but faced compliance challenges. Because the organization used a mix of license types—including low-cost Kiosk plans that lack built-in archiving—Office 365’s higher-tier archiving and e-discovery were complex, required ongoing IT effort, and the SharePoint Discovery Center didn’t always provide a complete historical record. The company needed a cloud-based, auditable archive to support legal hold, data recovery and industry compliance (e.g., HIPAA).

They deployed Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service with journal archiving to capture email “in motion,” a simple point-and-capture setup that works across license types and runs as a non‑intrusive, set‑and‑forget service. The archive delivers comprehensive audit logs, preserves all email long-term, enables fast search and retrieval, and reduced e-discovery response times from as much as two weeks to nearly immediate, while leaving options open for Outlook/mobile search and instant-message archiving in the future.